Has anyone out there gotten their raspberry pi3 to run off a ssd?. I have been looking into the pidrive boards. I also have a USB to ssd adapter but not sure if I can move a running system to this or even how to do it. Anyone got any tips or tutorials?

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sihui (SiHui) October 16, 2016, 7:51am 20

sihui:

No problem, I have some spare time at the weekend and will do the write up then.

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Booting Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3) from USB mass storage without sd card Tutorials & Examples

Update December 2017: This tutorial is outdated. With newer version of Raspbian you can install an USB SSD the same way as a sd card. A lot of openHAB users are concerned about the reliability of sd cards. Under certain circumstances while using persistence services and with a lot of read/write cycles through openHAB and system logging they tend to worn out. For the RPi3 there is a new USB mass storage boot mode which allows to boot the operating system from a harddisk, preferable an SSD har…

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